Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2023, stage 4: Andorra la Vella - Tarragona (184.6k)

[Devil's Elbow]

Who the *** set up those barriers?

 

[RobertCrawley]

I have to say: the announcing team of Bobke Roll and Christian Vandevelde is not that strong. VdV is fine, but Bobke is second tier.

 

[noob]

The way they hit each other for position today in the sprint was nasty too.

 

[Gigs_98]

I mean what did they think would happen at that sharp left hand turn at the end. I know it's super fashionable to sh*t on the Vuelta organizers right now, but having such a sharp turn on the final km of a sprint stage was bound to lead to a crash.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Has Kirby spotted Van Den Berg crashing into the crowd yet ?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Will the gaps count? I saw a few but not sure if it was because they were held up by the crash.

Evenepoel and Vlasov were up near the front.

 

[balac]

Ayuso, Roglic, Almeida , Arensmann, Lenny lost 4 seconds there.

 

[KZD]

Molano did a 'Gaviria' but Groves was too strong today.

Remco, Vlasov and Vingegård arrived all in the top20 but not sure there were any splits.

 

[RedheadDane]

Will the gaps count? I saw a few but not sure if it was because they were held up by the crash.

Was the crash within 3 Ks to go?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Mas, Vingegaard, Evenepoel, Vlasov and Kuss 4 seconds on the others provisionally

 

[Izzyeviel]

He slid out on the white paint!

Check that: His wheel slid before the paint on that super tight corner.

no, he slid before he got to the lines. Bit of an odd one that crash

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Was the crash within 3 Ks to go?

The Coquard/Buitrago one wasn't, I doubt these organisers will figure out who lost contact where though.

 

[DNP-Old]

Kelderman crashed.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Kelderman crashed.

How bad.

 

[Rackham]

Kelderman crashed.

I wondered who the Jumbo rider was who hit the deck. The commentators barely notice anything.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Crash was right at the end but I don't think it effected the gaps much as they were more down to bad positioning, loads of riders behind VDB made the front.

 

[DNP-Old]

How bad.

Idk, but he's yet to finish.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Nice sprint by Groves. Super win. Little too early for Molano.

 

[Volderke]

Marijn vdBergh went too hot into that curve, hit the brakes to the max sliding out.

The worst thing about that curve is that the barriers went inwards at the end of the curve. They could have solved that by going from wide to narrow in the curve in a smooth line, not with a sudden jump of around a meter that vdBergh couldn't adjust anymore to.

Crash with Buitrago at 3.9K from the finish so time loss counts.

The funny thing is that Groves thought he didn't have the win, looking behind and shaking his head. Then he saw that around the curve there was the last straight, going uphill, he recharged and overtook Molano with a last hard kick.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nice sprint by Groves. Super win. Little too early for Molano.

And unlike Evenepoel yesterday, he wasn't quoting your username right after the finish.

 

[Lequack]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696548431051841739

View: https://twitter.com/JumboVismaRoad/status/1696548431051841739

 

[Potomac]

I was hoping for more excitement on this stage.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Idk, but he's yet to finish.

Doesn't sound good.

 

[yaco]

An arrogant victory from Groves - Checked over his shoulder with 200 metres to go and put on the afterburners with 100 metres to go.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Alpecin 9 GTs in a row with stage wins.

What's the best streak since the start of the WT?

Probably that tied with HTC’s nine in a row with 37 stage wins and 3 TTs. Could have had from 2007 Tour to 2011 Vuelta if they won at the 2008 Vuelta.